While Konami continue to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:strip Kojima 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:and his name from existenc🎶e, it seems some part of the man has escaped the company's✨ scorched Earth approach to employee relations. Way back in September 2013, Hideo Kojima planted a cherry tree as a symbolic gesture when he opened his LA Kojima Productions studio:

It's just a Konami studio now, but the tree lives, as noted by below. There are no flowers anymore and it's, somewhat🉐 poetically, looking dead and barren againsꦜt the greenery now:

Picture credit: Dale North.

Back when the studio was founded, Kojima and his team had a ceremony to plant the tree. Obviously, it was intended to grow and blossom as the studio did the same. But that was before 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Konami decided to fo🍒cus on mobile games , allegedly put Kojima on contract, and generally give console ga♌ming the finger.

Here🌃 are some pictures of the ceremony from Ricky🌜 Zhang, who still calls himself 'the lead character artist at Kojima Productions Los Angeles' on his .

I'm pretty sure that Kojima behind the tree. Although conspiracy theorists might have a field day when they realise Ricky took three pictures and you 澳洲幸运5开奖🧸号码历史查询:can't see Kojima's head clearly in any of them.

It was a big dea💮l at the time, what with the signed gold shovels and everything.

And, for the time being, it's a little bit of Kojima that Ko𝕴nami hasn't quite removed just yet...